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Epidemiology of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis

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Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors

Part of the book series: Allergy Frontiers ((ALLERGY,volume 1))

Asthma and allergic rhinitis are common chronic conditions in children and adults in many parts of the world and the prevalence of both increased substantially during the twentieth century. Many people suffer from both asthma and allergic rhinitis and this is usually attributed to a shared link with IgE sensitisation to common environmental allergens. Despite extensive research into the environmental and lifestyle causes of asthma and allergic rhinitis no single factor has been identified to explain the marked geographical variation or the time trends in disease prevalence.

In this chapter, we will review the burden of both diseases, consider the risk factors that have been implicated in their aetiology and comment on the pattern of association of the two conditions.

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Jarvis, D., Shaheen, S., Burney, P. (2009). Epidemiology of Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis. In: Pawankar, R., Holgate, S.T., Rosenwasser, L.J. (eds) Allergy Frontiers: Epigenetics, Allergens and Risk Factors. Allergy Frontiers, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-72802-3_4

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